Lost to Stu 58-117 and James 61-111.
Also, Colin... 10/10 hyping skills.
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- Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 5 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 4
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1956
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:38 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
In light of Sunak's new Maths policy, this Sky News presenter, in an effort of accidental self-depreciation, admits she's not as smart as a 10-year-old. https://twitter.com/annabotting/status/ ... DkdHmrOKhw
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3103
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
Okay so i saw you had some misgivings about the conundrums used so far in that you think they're too difficult. It that just for you, or for general viewers of the show or the contestants taking part? Who are you speaking for and based on what evidence? Try to remember this is the Champion of Champ...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3103
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
If you've never read this excellent post on conundrum difficulty then I implore you to do so.
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: In a Darts style, what music would Countdowners want playing when they enter the Countdown arena
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2147
Re: In a Darts style, what music would Countdowners want playing when they enter the Countdown arena
Sadly I have already thought about this for years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3103
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
Surprised that Elliott's allowed to have his water on the inside of the buzzer, the floor manager was very particular about that when I was on.
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Corrections to numbers methods on the wiki
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1914
Re: Corrections to numbers methods on the wiki
For reference, this is why Mike has not published his notes for Series 2-6, and the recaps are all written by him. I don't want to put any pressure on Mike, but he ought to be able to help you out on the first two issues here.
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5304
Re: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
Glad to see they've had a sensible pill, finally. This news is about 2 years overdue!
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151619
Re: Countdowners in the news
A nice profile piece here on Sky. https://news.sky.com/story/countdown-ch ... a-12767414
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 7:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Historical recaps
- Topic: Friday 7 November 1986 (Series 10, Prelim 19)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3595
Re: Friday 7 November 1986 (Series 10, Prelim 19)
The introduction has been uploaded to YouTube so Frances's name is actually spelt Kicul, although no blame attached to Mike here given Richard's abysmal pronunciation of it.
Obviously I can't change CDB or TCDP, so just letting you know.
Obviously I can't change CDB or TCDP, so just letting you know.
- Sat Dec 24, 2022 10:15 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 23 December 2022 - Series 86 Grand Final
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3241
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5144
Re: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
Someone's also nominated the low scores page on the wiki for deletion, for example. Fuck that page. Worst page on there - absolutely unnecessary. Agreed that the deletion of that page is worthy of discussion I agree with this. Why have a list of 15-round scores under 30? What's it for? The lowest s...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 23 December 2022 - Series 86 Grand Final
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3241
Re: Spoilers for Friday 23 December 2022 - Series 86 Grand Final
Well that conundrum was fun.
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 23 December 2022 - Series 86 Grand Final
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3241
Re: Spoilers for Friday 23 December 2022 - Series 86 Grand Final
And this is why Colin is such a good host, teasing "big big news" after the break. Can't imagine anyone else, even RW, doing so.
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 23 December 2022 - Series 86 Grand Final
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3241
Re: Spoilers for Friday 23 December 2022 - Series 86 Grand Final
Not sure why Rachel thought they'd do 4L 284 + 7 when Philip's way above (also my way) was more obvious.
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:11 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
- Replies: 50
- Views: 24777
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Just for reference I've been greeted by this load of gobbledegook which someone technical might know about.
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- Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5144
Re: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
Countdown is not RuPaul's Best Friend race; I've seen a few comments suggesting it should be. Someone's also nominated the low scores page on the wiki for deletion, for example.
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5144
Re: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
In 2012, partly because it was in Baku and therefore started at 12am local time, by the time Loreen was leaving the Russian grannies behind practically no one was left in the hall. Similar situation in Moscow 2009. Rather than a slow realisation that a winner has, well, won, a moment of declaration ...
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5144
Re: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
I *do* like it when he does that - the Eurovision Song Contest picked up on this in 2013-15 after most of the audience went home in 2012 when Euphoria was winning by miles. The mathematical winning moment therefore works a lot better.
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023
- Replies: 52
- Views: 13905
Re: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023
Unfortunately I'm already booked for Uni cricket alumni, so can't do, I'm afraid.
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 10:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
The do-nothing Mayor has ignored the wishes of Londoners. 2 in 3 opposed ULEZ expansion in the “genuine consultation” and furthermore some opposition responses were improperly excluded. This is a scandal and Khan should resign.
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:25 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
- Replies: 114
- Views: 68747
Re: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
You bookmark Lexplorer at work because it’s the most accurate and correct dictionary you can think of.
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:48 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
A former civil servant has done a big interview with Guido to pour cold water on the Raab witch-hunt.
https://order-order.com/2022/11/17/the- ... standards/
https://order-order.com/2022/11/17/the- ... standards/
- Tue Nov 01, 2022 2:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
Suella’s not a great home sec, but she is right about one thing: there are too many people seemingly uninterested in the channel crossings, pretending it’s not happening because they refuse to believe that it’s illegal or should be stopped. No one needs to flee from France illegally to come here. Th...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
I agree that the reporting shown is pretty bad, and I'd expect complaints to be upheld. But to reiterate my previous questions - what values do you personally believe to be important? What are the values of the conservative party? Does Boris lead by example when considering those values? Boris John...
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
Bob, my boss, and 1922 committee member, so therefore neutral, has told the press that Boris got 100.
So maybe all the “journalists” who said he was lying about it should apologise to him?
So maybe all the “journalists” who said he was lying about it should apologise to him?
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:38 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
The BBC aren’t even trying to hide their bias any more. I don’t ever want to hear that Boris was given a fair time of it. https://twitter.com/nj_timothy/status/1 ... eC41NlkJsg
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
We must retreat to go forward.
Back Boris.
Back Boris.
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
I don’t know whether I’m joking any more when I post this.
https://twitter.com/rhysbenjamin/status ... AcZjGFR89Q
https://twitter.com/rhysbenjamin/status ... AcZjGFR89Q
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
The world's worst journalist at it again.
He's even acknowledged he's wrong, but left the original, fake news, tweet up...
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/15809 ... XX0n1_lMsQ
He's even acknowledged he's wrong, but left the original, fake news, tweet up...
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/15809 ... XX0n1_lMsQ
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:29 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
You could definitely sell the idea, emphasising “look how much tax you pay, it’s not fair, tax is theft, etc”. Council tax was born out of the poll tax debacle, but the poll tax itself was part of a wider move to local government funding. It was meant to make local government more accountable as wel...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 9:12 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
This reads oddly to me. It gives me the impression that you'd prefer a tax cut as a performative measure rather than a rebate that has more chance of reaching the people who need it most (not that I'm saying the rebate was the best way of doing it). My point being that a large portion of people bei...
- Fri Jul 15, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
A tax cut would have been better than the energy bills rebate and NI hike hits the wrong audience at the wrong time. This reads oddly to me. It gives me the impression that you'd prefer a tax cut as a performative measure rather than a rebate that has more chance of reaching the people who need it ...
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:40 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
I am sad that Boris has gone although it was the right time for him to stand down. As a voter in this election, brief views on each of the leadership candidates: Kemi Badenoch: “I’m the Prime Minister and I’m offended by unisex / gender neutral toilets” is bonkers. I’m not overly keen on net zero ei...
- Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:10 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words 'in the wild'
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7462
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
Not to punish illegal entry into a country?
[citation needed]
[citation needed]
- Sat Jun 18, 2022 6:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
My point is really that simply doing the decent thing by anyone in a camp in Calais today would surely mean that even more people would turn up in Calais. Aye. David Cameron in 2015 said that we would only take in refugees from Syria (rather than via Europe) so that they wouldn’t be encouraged to m...
- Sat Jun 18, 2022 2:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
has been superceded by the Nationality and Borders Act You haven't highlighted what specific part of the Act backs up your point, and much of it isn't in force yet, but even giving you maximum benefit of doubt, I think the most that can be said is that crossings could now theoretically be criminali...
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:29 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
That ruling, based on a loophole of the difference “arrival” and “entry”, has been superceded by the Nationality and Borders Act.
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3023/stages
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
That ruling, based on a loophole of the difference “arrival” and “entry”, has been superceded by the Nationality and Borders Act.
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3023/stages
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 8:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
The point is that they wouldn't need to come over the channel in unseaworthy vessels if we shipped them here ourselves. The point is they shouldn't be coming over in unseaworthy vessels AT ALL. There are plenty of safe and legal routes for people to come to the UK. God knows we deal with enough HO ...
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 8:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
Why do people need to claim asylum from France? It’s not exactly a non-safe country. These people are coming over the channel in unseaworthy vessels from a safe country, France, and we are spending millions every day accommodating them in stasis. A policy of deporting them is not a bad policy at all...
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
The people smugglers have won then.
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 11:13 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
It’s more like “oh, I’m sorry, as a police car the traffic laws don’t all apply to us, I didn’t realise that one still did”. But now there’s a genuinely awful conspiracy theory going around that Boris never had Covid. Come on, seriously… a bit of fact-checking please. Please take a sensible pill bef...
- Mon May 30, 2022 11:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1979
Re: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Even before the contest I believe we were at 28 in the chart, the highest we’d been for many years.
- Mon May 30, 2022 10:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
"I'm sorry, I didn't realise the speed limit was 30 for everyone. My mate told me that I could do 60, as he didn't think the rules applied to us. I didn't think it'd cause a crash." Except this is more like a police car speeding without bloos and toos. It’s a case of mistakes being made. ...
- Fri May 27, 2022 6:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
The Gray report is clear that Number 10’s staff clearly thought that as they were exempt from lockdown they were exempt from restrictions in total. I’m not sure you can pin that on the PM, to be honest. I think that’s on Martin Reynolds and other Number 10 officials. They then created a culture, tel...
- Fri May 20, 2022 5:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1979
Re: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Sam Ryder has narrowly lost to Harry Styles for this week’s #1, which confirms what I’ve been saying for a while: UK chart performance is a barometer for our Eurovision performance.
- Sat May 14, 2022 7:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1979
Re: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
7/10 for me on Thursday night as well - missed Poland, Belgium, Estonia.
William Lee Adams of Wiwibloggs now says anything other than top 5 is a disappointment for the UK!
William Lee Adams of Wiwibloggs now says anything other than top 5 is a disappointment for the UK!
- Tue May 10, 2022 11:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1979
Re: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
7/10 for me, I had Denmark, Austria, and Albania in and Moldova, Lithuania, and Portugal out. I mean, Moldova I can understand, but the other two!?
- Tue May 10, 2022 11:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11740
- Tue May 10, 2022 6:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11740
Re: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
Unfortunately I'm busy that day, but I would strongly recommend getting there early. Lewes Road is horrid to traverse via bus at the best of times, and if you're coming on the number 25 bus it's even worse.
- Tue May 10, 2022 6:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: The future of COLIN
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3487
Re: The future of COLIN
To echo Jack's point, co-event pricing, especially Lincoln and London, is fairly inelastic: if pricing issues do put people off, it will be the combination of travel/hotel/etc, not the entry fee itself. Taking my recent cricket event in Brighton in January as a very rough guide, you don't get much c...
- Tue May 10, 2022 6:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12352
Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Possibly Colin's done the old filming/broadcast dates mix-up and he's filling in all of the rest of S86.
- Mon May 09, 2022 6:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1979
Eurovision Song Contest 2022
The bookies’ favourite is Ukraine… really!? I mean, it wasn’t doing great in the odds until Vlad the Terrible showed up and the song is a bit naff… I have therefore put five quid on Italy. Predictions for the semi finals: SF1: Albania, Switzerland, Ukraine, The Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Iceland...
- Sat May 07, 2022 7:14 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
(And the BBC haven’t really bothered to dwell on it, largely because they didn’t send any reporters here.) Is that the reason? Or is it largely because the gain of a single council is quite an insignificant story compared to the massive losses suffered overall? Being a London council, if we (and Cr...
- Fri May 06, 2022 6:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801024
Re: Politics in General
WE WON HARROW COUNCIL. WE GAINED A COUNCIL IN LONDON. (And the BBC haven’t really bothered to dwell on it, largely because they didn’t send any reporters here.)
(I lost. Narrowly. Which was better than we expected.)
(I lost. Narrowly. Which was better than we expected.)
- Fri May 06, 2022 6:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12352
Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Anne’s demeanour simply wasn’t correct, from the start, middle and end. some bits I liked - I liked more chat with the contestants, gentle teasing is fine but put-downs/belittlement not so good. Conversational rather than interrogational - good example from yesterday - Jeremy Vine's chat with the c...
- Thu May 05, 2022 9:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12352
Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Anne has given a rather vicious interview to The Sun where she has said she quit because she refused to be employed by Channel 4, rather than remain freelance. Even a “huge” pay rise didn’t tempt her.
She has also admitted to asking for Rachel to be muted.
She has also admitted to asking for Rachel to be muted.
- Thu May 05, 2022 8:06 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12352
Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
It was just that the divorce was so messy I can’t see Channel 4 going back to her. Of course, I have no idea what salary Rachel is on for Countdown (or Anne for that matter) but remember that Vorderman left in a dispute over pay, where they wanted to cut her salary from £900k to £90k in one go. Alle...
- Wed May 04, 2022 9:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12352
Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Well, Richard Osman has publicly backed Colin Murray… but more interestingly, Vorderman has not distanced herself from the rumours (like she did last time). That tells me a lot. According to The Sun, “bosses” (C4? Damian? Who knows?) want her back.